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BOSSSee OSS. boss1 Informal Chiefly US a professional politician who controls a party machine or political organization, often using devious or illegal methods boss2 1. Biology any of various protuberances or swellings in plants and animals 2. a. an area of increased thickness, usually cylindrical, that strengthens or provides room for a locating device on a shaft, hub of a wheel, etc b. a similar projection around a hole in a casting or fabricated component 3. an exposed rounded mass of igneous or metamorphic rock, esp the uppermost part of an underlying batholith
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Dobson wants to be a major political boss, and this is his way to get there. On Wednesday, the entrepreneurial leadership of Robert Walpole, whom Schama dubs the country's first Prime Minister, is featured: ``Walpole had the goods, in every sense of the word,'' the historian notes, as the political boss builds fortunes for himself as well as his cronies. As political boss of the Cook County Democratic Party, he also constructed election slates to strengthen his position. |
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